Israeli forces first detained Al-Tamimi on 19 December during an overnight raid that was carried out in Ramallah’s northern village of Nabi Saleh. It was not the teen’s first brush with the Israeli forces.

Both her mother and cousin were arrested shortly afterwards. The girl’s father, mother and brothers have also all been repeatedly arrested for their “fierce opposition to Israel’s decades-long occupation.”

The occupied Palestinian territories have remained tense since 6 December, when the US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, drawing condemnation and protest from across the Arab and the Muslim world.

Since then, at least 17 Palestinians have been martyred in clashes with the Israeli security forces in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

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